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Custance.family #7820 开云体育 The account below certainly agrees with what my uncles have told me (they were in Stolpin, near Lwow).?The incorrect information should be deleted from the web site. ? Thank you for this description of the events in Stryj. It is not only factual but colours the picture so that we can imagine what it was like there in 1939 etc. ? Dianne Hitchin, Herts England ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text ----- Original Message ----- From: romed46 To: Kresy-Siberia@... Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:50 AM Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] Mis-information on A Forgotten Odyssey site On A Forgotten Odyssey site there is a Link to Kresy (item 4) from the Newspaper-The Holocaust, what appears to be a copy of an article in the "Daily Colonist" of Victoria, Canada, titled "Murderous Bands of Ukrainian Terrorists Slay Polish Refugees", dated Sept.21,1939. ? In the last paragraph it states "The Ukrainians took possesion of Lwow,Stryj and Stanislawow,reports reaching the frontier said, and for a time set up? their own government." I was born and lived my first 20 years in Stryj, and was there during September 1939. On September 6th Germans bombed our railway station, bridge and marketplace. On the 8th they bombed the same targets and houses along my street. On the 10th, a mass of disorganised Polish soldiers streamed through Stryj,most on foot, some in army horse drawn carts, some in peasants carts and some on bicycles.Most of them were armed and there were no officers visible.On Sept.12th German motorized infantry arrived and occupied Stryj and the two army barracks without a shot being fired.The Germans occupied Stryj until Sept.19th when the Soviet Red Army replaced them. Ukrainians never took possesion of Stryj or set up their own government. In my opinion, it is a gross mis-information and should not be disseminated on A Forgotten Odyssey. As far as Lwow is concerned ,Germans surrounded it on Sept.12th. Polish Army under the command of Gen.W. Langner defended Lwow until Sept.19th when Soviet Army replaced German Army.On Sept.23rd Gen. Langner surrendered the city of Lwow to the Soviet Marshal Timoshenko. I have never heard that Ukrainians took possesion of Lwow. The only unpleasant incident occurred on Sept. 11th in the village of Duliby, 4 km. south of Stryj where some soldiers got into argument with the villagers over a stolen pig, and the soldiers tossed grenades into some houses and shot at the escaping peasants. This is what I have observed and remember. R. Skulski
romed46 #7818 On A Forgotten Odyssey site there is a Link to Kresy (item 4) from the Newspaper-The Holocaust, what appears to be a copy of an article in the "Daily Colonist" of Victoria, Canada, titled "Murderous Bands of Ukrainian Terrorists Slay Polish Refugees", dated Sept.21,1939. In the last paragraph it states "The Ukrainians took possesion of Lwow,Stryj and Stanislawow,reports reaching the frontier said, and for a time set up their own government." I was born and lived my first 20 years in Stryj, and was there during September 1939. On September 6th Germans bombed our railway station, bridge and marketplace. On the 8th they bombed the same targets and houses along my street. On the 10th, a mass of disorganised Polish soldiers streamed through Stryj,most on foot, some in army horse drawn carts, some in peasants carts and some on bicycles.Most of them were armed and there were no officers visible.On Sept.12th German motorized infantry arrived and occupied Stryj and the two army barracks without a shot being fired.The Germans occupied Stryj until Sept.19th when the Soviet Red Army replaced them. Ukrainians never took possesion of Stryj or set up their own government. In my opinion, it is a gross mis-information and should not be disseminated on A Forgotten Odyssey. As far as Lwow is concerned ,Germans surrounded it on Sept.12th. Polish Army under the command of Gen.W. Langner defended Lwow until Sept.19th when Soviet Army replaced German Army.On Sept.23rd Gen. Langner surrendered the city of Lwow to the Soviet Marshal Timoshenko. I have never heard that Ukrainians took possesion of Lwow. The only unpleasant incident occurred on Sept. 11th in the village of Duliby, 4 km. south of Stryj where some soldiers got into argument with the villagers over a stolen pig, and the soldiers tossed grenades into some houses and shot at the escaping peasants. This is what I have observed and remember. R. Skulski

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